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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 1]
mind may be flickering. Although the mind may work imperfectly at the time of death, Kṛṣṇa gives a devotee shelter at His lotus feet. Therefore when a devotee gives up his body, the mind does not take him to another material body ( tyaktvā deham punar janma naiti mām eti ); rather, Kṛṣṇa takes the devotee to that place where He is engaged in His pastimes ( mām eti ), as we have already discussed in previous verses. One's consciousness, therefore, must always be absorbed in Kṛṣṇa, and then one's life will be successful. Otherwise the mind will carry the soul to another material body. The soul will be placed in the semen of a father and discharged into the womb of a mother. The semen and ovum create a particular type of body according to the form of the father and mother, and when the body is mature, the soul emerges in that body and begins a new life. This is the process of transmigration of the soul from one body to another ( tathā dehāntara-prāptiḥ ). Unfortunately, those who are less intelligent think that when the body disappears, everything is finished. The entire world is being misled by such fools and rascals. But as stated in  Bhagavad-gītā  (2.20),  na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre . The soul does not die when the body is destroyed. Rather, the soul takes on another body.
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यतो यतो धावति दैवचोदितं 
  मनो विकारात्मकमाप पञ्चसु । 
  गुणेषु मायारचितेषु देहसौ 
  प्रपद्यमानः सह तेन जायते ॥४२॥
yato yato dhāvati daiva-coditam 
  mano vikārātmakam āpa pañcasu 
  guṇeṣu māyā-raciteṣu dehy asau 
  prapadyamānaḥ saha tena jāyate
yataḥ yataḥ—from one place to another or from one position to another; dhāvati—speculates; daiva-coditam—impelled by accident or deliberation; manaḥ—the mind; vikāra-ātmakam—changing from one type of thinking, feeling and willing to another; āpa—at the end, he obtains (a mentality); pañcasu—at the time of death (when the material